Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Red Shoes, sentence 95
Then the sun shone so brightly, and right before her stood an angel of God in white robes; it was the same one whom she had seen that night at the church-door.
Who acts: sun, Karen · What happens: shine, stand, be, see · To what, where: angel, white robes, same one, church door
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Red Shoes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, Karen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 shone | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | nsubj |
| 4 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 brightly | advmod |
| 6 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 4 shone | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 stood | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 stood | cc |
| 9 | right | right | ADV | _ | 12 stood | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 stood | mark |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stood | nsubj |
| 12 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shone | conj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 angel | det |
| 14 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stood | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 God | case |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 angel | nmod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 robes | case |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 robes | amod |
| 19 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stood | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 one | punct |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 one | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 one | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 one | det |
| 24 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 one | amod |
| 25 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shone | parataxis |
| 26 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 seen | obj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 seen | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 seen | aux |
| 29 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 one | acl:relcl |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 night | det |
| 31 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 door | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 door | det |
| 34 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 door | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 church | punct |
| 36 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 seen | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | the sun | then | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | stand | past | Karen | a angel of God | white robes | right property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent angel=Theme in robe=Destination | ||
| 3 | is a | past | sun | the same one | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | Karen | the same one | the church door | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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